Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1868 — HEALY & JAMES, EDITORS [ARTICLE]

HEALY & JAMES, EDITORS

What the Country Expects. Grant is elected President and after he is inaugurated the people expect that wo shall have peace—peace from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Not a peace that will put one class under the heels of another, and place ub back to the days of 1860, when the Southerners enacted their black codes and virtually re-enslaved those whom the war made free, and at the same time declared that there was peace at the South. The peace that the people expect is a peace which will, give every person a right to speak, act, and vote in accordance with the law, and intentions of the law, ’ without being rfftrdered by mobs of KuKlux. They expect the most rigid system of retrenchment to be at once inaugurated ; that to this end the hordes ot dishonest and thieving leeches who have clung like barnacles to the admjnistratjpn of Andrew Johnson will at once be shipped, and their places supplied —not as some say will be the case, by a new set of cortuorantß—but by men capable and honest, and then if any of them fail to fill the bill, the people expect them to follow the leeches who have clung to Johnson’s administration. They expect that when Grant nominates an honest man to an office that the Senate will confirm the nomination, and not refuse, as John A. Logan said they did with Johnson, until ho nominated a scoundrel, and then confirm it. The people expect that the incoming administration will be pure and honest, and if it is, then by the time the next four years roll around, tho people will aay and faithful servants,” but if it is not, then the days of the Republican party are numbered.